Services for agencies and statutory bodies

We work closely with National Agencies such as the Environment Agency
(EA), Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Natural England
and Scottish Natural Heritage to maximise resources and share information.
We have a range of national
datasets from geology to geological indicators of flooding that
can be licensed for your use or consulted by us for input into shared
work.

We have a wealth of expertise across a broad range of geological
disciplines from climate change; to water resource
experts. Any of our experts can be brought in to assist with agency
projects and programs of work or commissioned to carry out projects
and reports for you. We can arrange this on a project by project
basis or set up longer term contracts whereby you can call on BGS
as and when you need us.

As examples, we work with the Environment Agency and SEPA on a number
of hydrological and hydrogeological projects to help understand our groundwater
systems and processes.

The Environment Agency has been one of our key partners in our
move into 3D modelling of the ground beneath our feet and we tailor
the way we attribute these detailed 3D models in order to better
understand issues the EA are researching, for example groundwater
flow modelling.

We also work with agencies such as Natural England on Mineral Planning
issues.

Geodiversity (Geological diversity) projects have been undertaken
with various agencies to protect our geological heritage and we have
been an instrumental partner in the setting up of several GeoParks
a UNESCO designation to recognise unique geology, promote tourism
and educate.

We also work with agencies on environmental and educational projects
to promote understanding of the need to use resources but importantly
the need to do this in a sustainable manner. We are involved in a
number of geological education projects (see for example, Blakeney
Esker) which helps explain geology to the community. Our educational
projects also look at human and climate impacts on geology and the
effect this is having on our changing landscape.